1.
*As Measured by LinkedIn's Content Marketing Score
The Most Influential Education Brands on LinkedIn:
The Top 10
Content Marketing Score based on LinkedIn global active members in 2015
1 2
United States United States
3 4
Australia United States
5
United States United States
6
Switzerland
7
9 10
United States Brazil
United States
8
This map shows the global distribution
of Institutions among the Top 50 Influential
Education Brands on LinkedIn.
The Content Marketing Score evaluates all
content-based activities on the LinkedIn
platform, including Company Page updates,
employee shares, LinkedIn Sponsored
Updates, activities in LinkedIn Groups and
Influencer and employee posts through the
LinkedIn Publishing Platform.
(The areas in teal are countries that are home to brands on the list).
The Content Marketing 50:
The 50 Most Influential Education Brands on LinkedIn*
Education Edition
The Most Influential Education Brands on LinkedIn:
11-50
# of Institutions on the list
1 2-3 4+
Education sector marketers have flocked to LinkedIn to reach the professional networking
platform’s audience of professionals, who are keen to boost their careers and earning power
with further education. In particular, education brands are leveraging LinkedIn for content
marketing. Below are the top 50 global education brands based on their LinkedIn Content
Marketing Scores, which are calculated by measuring the ratio between the total target
audience and the unique users that engaged with the content.
The Top Performing Education Brands
on LinkedIn Tend to Share the Following Traits:
Frequency of LinkedIn Company Page Updates
Among the Most Influential Education Brands:
7 per Week
95%
100%
90%
of institutions on the
list have employees
who post their own
content on LinkedIn
of institutions on the list invest
in LinkedIn Sponsored Updates75%
39. EnglishUp
United Kingdom
23. Duke University
United States
11. Pomona College
United States
19. University
of Phoenix
United States
29. Vanderbilt
University
United States
13. New York
University
United States
12. Arizona State
University
United States
15. IE Business School
Spain
United States
26. Nyenrode Business
Universiteit
Netherlands
14. Stanford Graduate
School of Business
United States
18. George Washington
University
United States
38. UCSF
United States
28. INSEAD
France
33. Babson College
United States
34. University of
Toronto
Canada
32. University of
Michigan Ross
School of Business
United States
20. Syracuse Online
Business
United States
16. Southern Vermont
College
United States
17. Harvard Business
School
United States
21. General Assembly 22. Ohio University
Online
United States
24. University of
Southern California
United States
25. Massachusetts
Institute of
Technology (MIT)
United States
27. Harvard Law School
United States
30. Open Universiteit
Netherlands
31. UC Berkeley
United States
35. NYU Stern School
of Business
United States
36. Vlerick Business
School
Belgium
37. Saïd Business
School, University
of Oxford
United Kingdom
43. Columbia
University in the
City of New York
United States
44. IMD business school
Switzerland
49. Imperial College
London
United Kingdom
45. HEC Paris
France
47. EF Education First
Switzerland
48. Copenhagen
Business School
United States
40. Columbia University
Graduate School
of Journalism
United States
41. Harvard University
United States
42. Conscious
Business Center
International-CBC
Argentina
46. Kellogg School
of Management
United States
50. Excelsior College
United States
of institutions on the
list post updates to their
LinkedIn Company Pages
of institutions on the list
have employees who share
on LinkedIn content created
by others
95%